Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service

Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by ars on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:59AM (#2395537)

  Upgrade browser

  Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work
  all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't
  compatible.

I'm using Iceweasel 3.6.13 which is modern enough I think.

Someone has been using browser sniffing incorrectly. For the record my UserAgent is:

  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Firefox/3.0.6 (like Firefox/3.6.13) FirePHP/0.5

If you notice I enabled the option to not send Iceweasel in the useragent since it was causing problems.

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by darklajid on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:36AM (#2395619)

Are you sure that this is a problem with the UserAgent? You don't happen to use NoScript and the site just doesn't degrade with a useful message?

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by ars on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:37AM (#2395623)

I do have NoScript, so I turned it off, but it still happened, so that's not the problem.

Are you the author of the site? You shouldn't be sniffing browsers anyway, I see you are using jQuery. Use jQuery.support instead.

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by darklajid on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:57AM (#2395647)

Not the author, just curious/interested. And I agree with your last two sentences..

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by taitems on Friday April 01, 2011 @05:55AM (#2395646)

jQuery.support is deprecated, use Modernizr instead.

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by ars on Friday April 01, 2011 @06:34AM (#2395713)

Modernizr might be interesting, but jQuery.support is not depreciated. Perhaps you are thinking of jQuery.browser which is.

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by chapel on Friday April 01, 2011 @06:55AM (#2395743)

Deprecated is the correct word.

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by linden on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:54PM (#2396971)

My apologies, will get the browser sniffing code fix right away!

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Re:Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service by ars on Sunday April 03, 2011 @07:20PM (#2404506)

It does not work as of right now.

Don't fix the code - get rid of it. You should not be sniffing browsers anyway, there are too many unusual cases.

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